Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Google Map Hack for Large Maps
Guitar Chords for Mountain Goats - California Song Tabs, Chords, Lyrics
Apple - Support - GarageBand - Recording Your Podcast: "Creating a Real Instrument Track with your favorite vocal setting from the presets listed, or build your own. (Tip: Adjusting Gate and Compression will allow you to remove unwanted noise while you are not speaking, and smooth out the overall sound of your voice. Also be sure to try the vocal transformer for some really fun effects)"

Monday, June 27, 2005

Walt Disney: "The Swiss Family Treehouse became Tarzan's Treehouse in 1999"
Walt Disney: "'On the 30th anniversary night, I came down here with Frank [Wells] and the writer from the New York Times. And I was proudly telling about all the things we were doing at Disneyland, and I got to the George Lucas 'Star Wars' ride... 'We're going to put in this great Star Wars attraction with technology that has never been seen before. It's gonna be the attraction that's going to replace that dog, [Adventure Thru] Inner Space.' She said, 'How can you say 'that dog?' That's the most brilliant attraction ever at Disney! Walt Disney himself designed it! How can you ruin Disney?' She then dragged me to go over on it. We rode it twice. She called me a monster.'"

Sunday, June 26, 2005

We Shall All Be Healed lyrics: "Your Belgian Things

Intro:
E|--2-0--2-3--3-3---------|
B|--3-3--3-3--3-3---------|
G|--2-2--2-0--0-0---------|
D|--0-0--0-0--0-0------0--|
A|---------2--2-2--0h2----|
E|---------3--3-3---------|

Verse:
D Em (The men were here...)
Em A (They'll store them...)
D Em (There's guys...)
Em Aadd4 A (They've come to keep...)

Chorus:
G A (I can see you...)
D G (Playing the points...)
G Aadd4 A (Walking gingerly across...)


Bridge:
G A (I guess, I guess...)
F#m G (But Jesus what a mess...)
G D (One way in...)
G A (No way out...)"
Glorious Noise - Interview with the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle: "Protein? Don't get me started.
The 'recommended daily allowance' of protein
that you'll read about in nutrition books was determined by whom? You
guessed it: studies funded by the beef council and so on. Anyhow, yeah,
beans'll do the job. Miss bacon? Only until I think about the truly
staggering amount of suffering that has to go into each piece. Not just
death: suffering. Intelligent animal as friendly as a nice dog (and MORE
loyal, if you can believe it: hogs have been known to walk thirty-plus miles
back to their homes when they've gotten lost) being forced to endure living
conditions you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, screaming in pain all day,
unable to move around, eventually going insane from the stress, often being
tortured by slaughterhouse workers who have become cruel after working so
long in an environment characterized mainly by blood and death...no, I don't
miss bacon."
Instructions for a Tonsillectomy and/or Adenoidectomy: "Eat soft foods, avoid acid-type fluids such as orange juice,
pineapple juice, etc., as these things will irritate your throat.
It is important to drink plenty of fluids during your recovery
period."
keepgoing.org :: The Big Fish: "The piece identified Steadman and Anuff by name as the creators of the site, and they were soon fielding calls from parties interested in acquiring Suck. The timing was fortuitous. The process of creating a column every day, plus working their day jobs at HotWired, was brutal, and they were already starting to burn out. At the start of the project, they%u2019d given themselves three months to turn Suck into a salable property, after which the schedule would be too difficult to sustain. %u201CThe question was either selling out and getting somebody to turn it into a respectable operation, or stop publishing,%u201D says Anuff. %u201CThose were the only two options.%u201D"
keepgoing.org :: The Big Fish: " %u201CI don%u2019t know what Carl saw in me, other than somebody who probably believed in too many things, and I think Carl relished the opportunity to crush those beliefs.%u201D"
RMRS Public Affairs: Planting Time: "What's the allure? Like gold, seeds hold the promise of payback.
Bermant first saw that promise back in 1978, as a student at
Utah State University. Congress had just passed a law requiring
coal mines to reclaim - and replant - their diggings. The mining
companies needed seeds, and Bermant, who was studying range management,
knew where to find them. He rounded up a few fellow students,
directed them to ripened stands of grasses and shrubs, and promised
to pay by the pound for any seeds they collected. Soon, he had
a small team of college kids beating the bushes - literally -
with tennis rackets and brooms, knocking millions of tiny seeds
into bags and onto dropcloths, for drying, cleaning and sale.


Names out of Mermant's botany textbooks became inventory items
for his budding business: bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides),
muttongrass (Poa fendleriana), bluebunch wheatgrass (Elymus spicatus),
skeleton buckwheat (Eriogonum deflexum), coyote tobacco (Nicotiana
attenuata), mountain hawksbeard (Crepis acuminata), broom snakeweed
(Gutierrezia sarothrae).

'I've always been kind of an entrepreneur,' says
Bermant, who now owns the biggest seed-distributing company in
the West. His company, Granite Seed Co., is located just outside
of Lehi, an agricultural town sandwiched between Salt Lake City
and Provo, in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains. Bermant won't
say how much he's worth, but his three large warehouses currently
shelter 3 million pounds of seed, from both exotic and native
plants. Last year, he sold 5 million pounds of seed mix to the
federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to rehabilitate land burned
by the Rodeo-Chediski Fire on the White Mountain Apache Reservation
in Arizona. Half of that was native seed, and some of it, such
as antelope bitterbrush, can fetch as much as $40 per pound."
Bouteloua gracilis 'Hachita' -- Blue Grama turf Grass Seed, 4 lb bag: "Suitable for use between elevations of 3,000 to 7,500 ft.'Western Trails' Native Wildflower Seed Mix - Western Trails Native Wildflower Seed Mix"
Rio Audio : iTunes: "Mac OS X


The following Players are supported under Mac OS X:
# Rio Cali
# Rio Chiba
# Rio Fuse
# Rio Forge
# Rio Carbon 5GB Silver
# Rio 500
# Rio 600
# Rio 800
# Rio 900
# Nike PSA Players
# Rio one
# Rio S Series (S10, S30, S35, S50)
Itunes 4.2 or later has built-in support for Rio One, 500, 600, 800, 900, Nike PSA, S Series players, Fuse, and non-Mass Storage (MSC) Cali and Chiba. Download it here. Mac OS X Installer
If you have a Cali/Chiba Mass Storage (MSC), Forge, or Carbon player then you'll need to install a plug-in for your player to be recognized by iTunes. You can install the plug-in using the Mac OS X installer. "
Far-Blue - Projects - RioVista
SourceForge.net: Project Info - Unix Rio Utility

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: "And it's absolutely correct because from that moment on anyone that's ever seen that movie... I'll tell ya', Romero fans are some of the most dedicated and some of the most loyal and I think partially because George reciprocates that loyalty. I can't tell you how many times onset he said to me, 'I just want to make a movie the fans like.' He really know how much it means to live up to the fans' expectations. He really wants the fans to be happy. He wants to deliver a movie that the fans will want to see. And then they're going to want to buy it on DVD, then they're going to go back and buy NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD and DAY OF THE DEAD, then there's going to be the alternate box set with all 4 movies... I mean, who knows? But I've never met a director more in-tune with his audience than George."
Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: "So, one of the first things that I recommended, aside from us spending a lot of time designing head hits and squibs that were non-explosive, that had air charges in them, I said, 'Listen. You forget that we have a great tool at our disposal. You set up a greenscreen and we shoot a bunch of blood sprays against green and you can comp 'em in and stick 'em in wherever you want.' And I'll tell ya'... they worked unbelievably well. You get really good, realistic blood sprays and the head hits look good and they're dramatic enough that they look just like a practical head hit."

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Bitch. Ph.D.
Methylcellulose: "Methylcellulose
CAS # [9004-67-5]

Synonyms: Cellulose, methyl ether; methyl ether cellulose Caution: This is not a food grade product and should not be added to foods.
Application of Methylcellulose in cosmetic and personal care"
Sinopia.com | How to make Inks
43 Folders: Custom index cards from your own printer: "I have been using a Canon iP3000 to print onto store-bought 3x5 cards--it works wonderfully and it's a great printer. It prints natively onto 4x6 cards, and it's really easy to print onto a 3x5.
I've found that iCal is great for a HPDA. Save the week view as a pdf, and open it in preview. Select the area you want, and print the week onto a 3x5 card. It works wonderfully."

Monday, June 20, 2005

USATODAY.com: "Sometimes Disneyland's Lost and Found department returns the missing smile to a child's face by recovering a lost toy. Sometimes it literally returns the hair to a man's head by salvaging a stray toupee.But Kay McFaul, who ran the department for 20 years, witnessed perhaps the biggest change to a visitor's face when she returned a missing item: the woman's glass eyeball.%u201CImmediately I put out a call and said, %u2018Have the sweepers check their pans, because we have a woman who has lost her artificial eye,' %u201D says McFaul, now 83 and retired for 15 years. %u201CIt wasn't but a short time later that in came this young guy, and he just handed me his pan. He thought it was a marble. Then he got the call and realized %u2014 it was looking at him.%u201D"

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Pew Internet & American Life Project: "Information on the Web is important to significant numbers of Americans when they are making important choices related to education and job training, investments and big-ticket purchases, and health care for themselves or for loved ones. Online material is also important to a relatively large number of people who are looking for new jobs and new places to live.
... or for loved ones. Online material is also important to a relatively ...

... passage, Internet, online, research, study Site Map | Take Our Poll | ...

... Reports Archive Online Activities & Pursuits Demographics Internet ...

http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/58/report_display.asp %u2022? 17.5k"

Friday, June 17, 2005

MacOSX - Robo Wiki -= Collecting Robocode Knowledge =-
Utah Real Estate - Your One Stop Source for Searching Real Estate in Utah: "MLS #521064"
Refills for Pilot G2 Gel, Dr. Grip Gel Roller and ExecuGel Ball Pens by PILOT: "
Product No.?DescriptionList?Discount?Price?UnitShipOrder Extra Fine Point
PIL77232Black Ink (.021 lbs)$2.18?30%?$1.51?PackPIL77233Blue Ink (.021 lbs)$2.18?30%?$1.51?PackPIL77234Red Ink (.021 lbs)$2.18?30%?$1.51?PackPIL77235Green Ink (.021 lbs)$2.18?30%?$1.51?PackPIL77236Purple Ink (.021 lbs)"
www.dimeadozen.org :: EzTorrent v0.4.1 :: Torrent details for "AIMEE MANN & MICHAEL PENN - 'Acoustic Vaudeville' - Annapolis MD 7 Feb 2000"
Kill Flies with The Amazing Flygun
Profile: Meg Hourihan - Feature - Tufts University: "After a childhood spent playing around on her mom's Apple II computer and learning elementary programming languages at school in Brookline, Mass., her early interest in math and science gave way to an emphasis on literature and writing by her senior year of high school.

'By the time I got to Tufts, the only thing I was using a computer for was writing papers, then helping other people format their papers in Microsoft Word,' the English major recalls. While temping after graduation, she found herself working a lot in desktop publishing, mostly due to her skill with Microsoft Word.

When one investment firm decided to post its prospectuses on the web, Hourihan jumped at the chance to teach herself HTML and spearhead the project.

There was no turning back. 'That was it, I was hooked,' she says.

As she moved on to work for a consulting firm, she evangelized about the web being the next step for businesses. Her technological interests finally found their outlet.

'It wasn't until the connectivity of the Web really came along that I realized what was really interesting about it all for me,' she says.

Blogger emerged at the height of the dot-com bubble, and for Hourihan and her hard-working Blogger colleagues, it was a crazy time. Companies sprung up overnight promising 'the next big thing' for the web, and venture capitalists threw funding at them freely."

Thursday, June 16, 2005

A stunning vaccine cover-up | MetaFilter: "Can you seriously defend quotes such as these?

'We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits,' said Dr. Robert Brent, a pediatrician at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware. 'This will be a resource to our very busy plaintiff attorneys in this country.' Dr. Bob Chen, head of vaccine safety for the CDC, expressed relief that 'given the sensitivity of the information, we have been able to keep it out of the hands of, let's say, less responsible hands.' Dr. John Clements, vaccines advisor at the World Health Organization, declared flatly that the study 'should not have been done at all' and warned that the results 'will be taken by others and will be used in ways beyond the control of this group. The research results have to be handled.'

Can you ignore the way the original report was dealt with with your application of the 'conspiracy theory' label. It sounds like it meets the very definition of conspiracy to me.
posted by spock at 9:51 AM
MST
on June 16 [!]"

Wednesday, June 15, 2005


'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
: "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything %u2013 all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that your are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
Air conditioner coils | Ask MetaFilter: "We just had our 2-3 year old AC looked at because of ice on coils. There are coils on the outside unit which you can clean yourself with a hose and sprayer. There are also coils in the inside unit. Those would be the ones to form ice. Cleaning those might do some good depending on how old the inside unit is, but you would really want to fix what is causing the ice. In our case the filters (electronic but that does not matter really) were so packed with cat hair, lint, and dirt that there was not enough air flow to the coils. When that happened the coils iced up and the AC barely cooled. Our AC guy told us to keep the filters cleaned and be sure the air intake in the wall was no restricted/blocked. After cleaning the filters and the ice melted it has worked great.
Our AC guy told me that we should see a 15-20 degree drop between the intake and vent temps. Our unit is in a closet with both intake and vent very close to check this.
Not particularly part of every icy coil problem, but we also had trouble with the drip/drain pan's drain pipe on our unit. It was blocked outside which backed up water when the ice melted and tripped the float sensor. The float sensor turns off the outside unit and leaves the inside unit running in 'fan mode', no cooling. For a week we had poor cooling with ice forming and melting and turning off the outside unit which was all remedied by cleaning filters and clearing the drain pipe.
When having the unit looked at get the freon levels checked too."
Current Research at the SEECL
Google Groups : misc.consumers.frugal-living

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Buffalograss decision: "If you want rock-solid proof, the book 'Waterwise Landscaping with Trees, Shrubs, and Vines: A Xeriscape Guide for the Rocky Mountain Region, California, and the Desert Southwest by Jim Knopf (Editor)' has various well-documented examples of xeriscape 'payoffs.' In some cases, you will break even in just a few years. I would consider this a sure-fire investment rather than an expense. If you install cheap lawn, you will be saddled with the negative economics of care, feed, water and waste."

Friday, June 10, 2005

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ProgrammingTalk - Search Results
Using Flat Files - Writing Data - Tutorial php script - Tips and Tutorials: "Using Flat Files - Writing Data - Tutorial
Rating 0 - Tips and Tutorials

This may come in useful for those of you who have access to PHP but not any form of database. Flat files are essentially text files which store data, much like databases themselves ... the only drawback being many less functions, such as search, edit and all the other things possible with MySQL."

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Hyundai Performance Forums: "As well, as far as Accent swaps go, the Beta is a perfect candidate... it gives a significant power increase, even if you leave it N/A; it requires little custom work to make it fit; and even though the Beta has never been sold as a turbo motor (unlike the 4g63), the Beta is a tough motor, with a strong block, and can be turboed reliably.

If I were you, I would buy an x3 Accent, (so far, I think there have been many more x3 Beta swaps than there have been with the newer LC) and find a good quality Beta motor (they can be found on e-bay fairly regularly) and do that swap. The Beta can be swapped in with the Beta transmission OR it can be used with the Accent transmission too, if you prefer.

Many other Tiburon/Elantra piece fit the x3 Accent too... the front brakes are one example I can think of right now."

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Google Groups : microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support: "Hi

Please try the following links to Jim Eshelman's web site:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm
http://aumha.org/win5/a/tshoot.htm "
Spangenberg Theatre: "Director Nicolas Philibert apparently considered some 300 village schools before choosing to film this one and a good choice it was too. Although Philibert paces the seasons and the progression of the year through too many shots of the local landscape, his direction remains understated. This remains a funny and emotionally affecting film that makes up for any trivial indulgence."

Monday, June 06, 2005

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria. | MetaFilter
Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind - New York Times: "The share of the nation's income earned by those in this uppermost category has more than doubled since 1980, to 7.4 percent in 2002. The share of income earned by the rest of the top 10 percent rose far less, and the share earned by the bottom 90 percent fell.

Next, examine the net worth of American households. The group with homes, investments and other assets worth more than $10 million comprised 338,400 households in 2001, the last year for which data are available. The number has grown more than 400 percent since 1980, after adjusting for inflation, while the total number of households has grown only 27 percent."
WWDC 2005 - Live Coverage of Keynote || The Mac Observer: "'This has been going on for the last five years.' Every release of OS X has been compiled and run on Intel processors."

Sunday, June 05, 2005

Opinions You Should Have - June 2005 Archives *43 6
UNC Writing Center Handout | Writing Your Dissertation: "Remember that there is no shame in not pursuing this advanced degree.

Many, many people lead happy, fulfilling lives, build lucrative and rewarding careers, make important contributions to knowledge, share interesting ideas with others, and generally get along just fine without three letters after their names. Deciding not to continue with a Ph.D. does not mean that you have 'quit' or that others who remain in the program are smarter, more driven, or more virtuous than you are. It also does not mean that you have wasted the time and money that you invested in the degree up to the ABD stage. It may simply mean that after considering your own personal motivations and goals, you decided this career choice wasn't for you—and that you plan to use the skills you honed as a graduate student in other ways that are more suited to you."

Thursday, June 02, 2005

2002 Hyundai Accent GL - Parts Car
Google Search: hyundai dealer near Orem, UT: "(801) 226-8194 We are happy to introduce University Hyundai
located in the Orem, Utah (UT) area to the largest car dealer "